So, I fed all the results from the voting into an excel sheet, and did some number crunching. If you like numbers as much as I do, than come and look at all my research results.

The results of my research are:

Have a look at this beautiful excel sheet

• Round 1 has been the best, atleast almost all top 20 themes are from round 1.
• The most votes on any theme are on “You must leave it behind” with 2575 votes, meaning we can expect a slight rise in the number of participants from last LD (2346). The theme with the least votes has been “Desperation” with only 2338 votes (irony?).
• The most downvotes got “Prohibition” with 1488. I guess this will never become a Ludum Dare theme.
• Two of the top themes are nearly identical “Parallel Worlds” and “Multi-layered world” (or at least they sound identical to me) still “Parallel Worlds” performed better because less people disliked it.
• As far as i can judge, and except “Evil vs Evil” which is very similar to “You are the villain” from LD 25, there are only fresh “never seen before in a LD” themes.

Fun facts:

• Did you notice there are actually 21 themes in the final round instead of the announced 20? (Seems like PoV wants to keep “Darkness” in the final round) (Edit: my bad, there are really 20 themes in the final round, but “Contrast” got replaced by “Darkness”, although having higher votes) I’m too stupid copying numbers from one screen to another? PoV is of course right, it was my mistake. (Data files have been updated)
• “Infestation” has exactly 666 upvotes. Coincidence?
• There are as many people hating “Destruction” as there are people hating “Immortal” (1167).
• “Balance” is the theme with the most Neutral votes (696). Seems like people couldn’t decide for one side. 😀

(Anybody who is interested: here is my original xlsx file, here is a super-portable CSV file of this or as a PDF for viewing pleasures.)

(Any errors or typos are pure intentional and for entertainment purposes only.)

Thank you for your time, I hope you had as much fun reading this, as I had making this.